conceptual

I stumbled on a preview for Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs) last night. Exactly two thoughts ran through my head: intriguing and bothersome. It is "a musical about love, life and death starring Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier and Chiara Mastroianni". Sounds like a good film: exceptional cast (I have a big lesbian crush on Ludivine), they have great singing voices, but there is one huge problem. I am in the early stages of writing a novella about idealistic polygamists. Seeing a movie released last year, with a similar premise, reminds me how difficult it is have an original idea. OK, so my story is not a musical and probably has many differences. Also, mine isn't a threesome. It's a foursome. However, I was planning to base one of my male characters on Louis Garrel. I might have to forget that idea.

Hey, wow, Louis Garrel really seems to like threesomes (also starring in the The Dreamers). I'm definitely going to have to see the film right away. Maybe it will be :: fingers crossed :: greatly different and I will end up adding it to my list of loved films.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/lovesongs/trailer/